Here comes The Franchise

Francisco Liriano will get the start tonight for the AAA Rochester Red Wings. It will be his last stop on a quick minor league "rehab tour" and he will start for the Twins on Sunday at Kansas City. Let's hope that elbow is okay.

So far, the Twins have been a lot of fun to watch. They are raw and young in spots -- but Delmon Young and Carlos Gomez are both going to be all-star or near all-star like performers by 2010.

Jason Kubel is going to get his chance -- Gardy is finally giving him legit at-bats every day and Kubel has to respond now or he is going to be coming off the bench for good by the middle of May.

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Watching Kansas pull out an overtime win last night was fun, but the most enjoyable part of the night for us was watching Roy Williams wear a Jayhawks sticker on his shirt. Is that the biggest act of sports bigamy in the history of sport bigamists? We think so.

Our picks for the brackets, by the way, did not go very well. We had North Carolina winning it all against UCLA with Kansas and Texas also in the Final Four but not getting a shot at the championship. We had Memphis losing to Mississippi State in the 2nd round so um...our brackets didn't turn out well.

This Blackburn guy might be okay.

Scoring four runs in three games isn't a good sign, but the Twins might have found a decent option in the starting rotation. Nick Blackburn held the Angels to five hits through seven innings but got zero run support. He deserves to be up with the big club, something we didn't think could be possible back in February.

Now Justin Morneau needs to figure out how to get the ball out of the infield and we should be okay.

Gus who's back.

Gus Frerotte signed with the Vikings to back-up Tavaris Jackson. We think he will back-up Jackson. He could be the starter by the end of October. We have no opinion about Gus, which is probably the reaction most people are feeling today.